Arcade, or, How to write a novel
a novel
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Author
Publication
1998 - Four Walls Eight Windows, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
43,000 words, Guess
Page Count
172 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL366246M
- ISBN-101568581157
- OCLC Control Number39223692
- OCLC Control Numberarcadeorhowtowri00lish
- Library of Congress Control Number98026693
and 2 more
- Goodreads526543
- LibraryThing1402197
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3562.I74 A89 1998
Alternate Titles
- Arcade
- How to write a novel
Description
A novel fails if everything is not annihilated by the writing of it. But what if the best the writer can do is get no better than himself bumped off? Could this be what they mean by plot? What's to be said of a novel produced to bring into being the assassin of the novelist? Mightn't the payoff, if anyone were to pay attention in earnest, come to account for a footnote in Lit 101? Lish's Arcade pleads to be read as the old college try for immortality at the university level. Apart from this, this book is empty, the pursuit of a blank, a smug admission of flawed booklessness.
Subjects
Genres
- Fiction.
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